Posts Tagged ‘Rally America’

"First, I want to express my appreciation to Doug Havir for establishing and building Rally America," said J.B. Niday, "Bill Fogg and his team bring great, new talents and resources to Rally America, as well as fresh ideas and perspectives." Full story

The Rally in the 100 Acre Wood is based in Salem, Missouri and is well known for its fast and flowing stage roads. The best teams from all over North America and beyond gathered to contest over 120 competitive miles spread throughout the foothills of the Ozark Mountains. This year crews were challenged with unusually damp conditions after heavy rainfall on the Thursday before the ... Full story

Hanson was able to gain an advantage on the first day of the rally when front-runners Antoine L'Estage and David Higgins both retired, leaving him with an overnight lead of four minutes. Hanson drove a flawless rally and maintained a pace that kept him head and shoulders above the rest of field for the remainder of the event. Full story

Ponce now returns to kick off 2011, by being the first Mexican to ever race in the King of the Hammers, the ultimate desert race, as an international guest star team representing Mexico. Ponce was working on a new Jeep Speed 3700 Class / Ultra 4 rig but due to limited time and resources, he decided to build a new partnership with Javier’s ... Full story

The Super Production class was created in 2009 by RallyCar to offer a compromise between the top-tier Open class and the more restrictive Production GT class, giving teams options for key modification allowances in an effort to make competition more affordable and competitive. This includes but is not limited to: allowing vehicles to be updated or backdated within a body style of the model, fitting ... Full story

The hot competition always heats up Sno*Drift's frigid temperatures. Returning for the 2011 season is the Subaru Rally Team USA with BMX Legend and X Games star, Dave Mirra, and a new driver familiar to longtime rally fans, Britain's David Higgins. Higgins is the 2004 British Rally Champion and the replacement in the seat left vacant by action sports star Travis Pastrana, who announced last ... Full story

"Winning the Rally America Championship was a real big deal for us considering that we are a team of just five people with a single car," L'Estage continued. "We never expected to be in contention the whole year. We were just going to run a limited selection of Rally America events, but we found ourselves at the top of the standings and fortunately found the ... Full story

"Ford Motor Company has always supported customers and enthusiasts who enjoy their Ford products in performance settings," said Jamie Allison, director, Ford North America Motorsports. "Ford Racing's partnerships with Miller Motor Sports Park for the Mustang Driving Experience and recently with Team O'Neil Driving School for the Fiesta Rally Experience have been at the forefront of this effort. The Fiesta Sport Trophy championship is the ... Full story

This weekend's double-header was a successful finale to RallyCar's inaugural wheel-to-wheel season, boasting record entries and spectator attendance. Hosted at the New Jersey Motorsports Park, the Rallycross was an international affair with five top overseas competitors challenging America's best. The AWD A-Final saw four Americans up against three proven European drivers and was preceded by an intensely fought B Main race. In the B Main, ... Full story

Sverre "The Viking Warrior" Isachsen takes a dominant win on the pen-ultimate round of the 2010 RallyCar U.S. Rallycross Championship. Isachsen won the All-Wheel Drive final in his 2008 Ford Focus named "Stina" with a time of 3 minutes 23.9 seconds, finishing five seconds ahead of Toomas Heikkinen in the 2010 SAAB 93 Aero Sport. The AWD A Main was forced to re-start twice before ... Full story